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Many Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methods have been proposed for the purposes of reducing maintenance
costs and/or assuring performance of civil structures. The objective of this research is to propose a damage detection
system that can obtain the detailed damage information by use of the minimum number of sensors. The proposed
system minimizes the possibility of incorrect judgments. Modal frequencies of a structure are used for pattern
recognition in the proposed method. Changes in multiple natural frequencies can be correlated to the spatial information
of the location of damaged stories. Typically only two vibration sensors, one on the roof and the other on the ground,
detecting a single input and a single output for the structure are needed to determine modal frequencies. Out of many
pattern recognition tools, we propose to use the Support Vector Machine (SVM). This technique has been found
effective. Our previous studies demonstrated that the proposed damage detection method worked well for simple
models such as shear structures and bending structures. However, real buildings have various boundary conditions at
their supports. In this study, the SVM technique was applied to damage detection of structures with various boundary
conditions. The feature vectors for SVMs are generated based on the model of a structure. Then locations of structural
damage are detected by inputting the measured structural vibration data into the SVMs. From simulation, it was found
that the influence of the change in boundary conditions on the lower modes is larger. We performed experimental
studies on damage detection of power distribution poles that had overhead wires. We proposed a method for
determining the boundary conditions of the poles and verified this method based on measured vibration data. We
demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method in detecting damage in the poles.
Keywords: system identification, support vector machine, modal analysis, damage detection
1. INTRODUCTION
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems are getting strong attention for maintaining proper performance of
building structures against hazards such as large earthquakes and strong winds. Many approaches for structural health
monitoring have been proposed for maintenance cost reduction or performance guarantee of civil and building
structures. However, installing an SHM system to a building is not an easy task as the conventional building has many
possible damage scenarios for such hazards. Detecting possible damages associated with each damage scenario by an
SHM system is very difficult and requires the prohibitive number of sensors. Thus the obstacle we often face when
installing an SHM system into a building is the trade-off relation between the number of sensors versus the accuracy of
the damage detection. The large number of sensors results in expensive costs for the system as well as enormous efforts
needed for wiring and designing a proper data acquisition system. Complicated and expensive SHM system is by no
means practical for most buildings. If we assume an occasion of applying the system to a tall building, it would be
unrealistic to say it is economically feasible to deploy several acceleration sensors to each floor for the monitoring
purpose. Thus, automatic systems and innovative diagnosis mechanisms are necessary for SHM. In line with this
scenario, the purpose of this research is to propose a system that can obtain the detailed damage information by
installing the minimum number of sensors. The system is optimized to minimize the possibility of incorrect judgments.
Many damage detection algorithms based on the modal properties of a structure such as modal frequencies, mode
shapes, curvature mode shapes and modal flexibilities have been studied for several decades. However, in most
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algorithms, identifying the precise location and magnitude of the damage is difficult. If not completely possible, the
accuracy and reliability is not sufficient. Alternative approaches based on identification of parametric models from the
time domain or frequency domain data are being extensively studied. They are promising tools to provide satisfactory
estimation of damage. However, they are not effective if the number of sensors is very limited1).
The purpose of this study is therefore to establish a new method to identify the location of damage using limited number
of sensors. Modal frequencies of a structure are used for pattern recognition in the proposed method. A natural
frequency change associated with a certain mode does not provide the spatial information of structural damage.
However, multiple natural frequency changes can provide the spatial information on the location of damaged stories.
Typically only two vibration sensors on the roof and the ground detecting a single input and a single output for a
structural system are needed to determine modal frequencies. The modal frequencies are used for forming feature
vectors for pattern recognition. The detection of the damage is based on the relation between the natural frequency
changes and the damage induced in a structure with the help of support vector machines (SVM). The SVM was recently
proposed as a new technique for pattern recognition and is effectively utilized in the system to achieve this purpose.
Based on the modal frequency changes, the damage location and its severity are identified by the SVM.
Our previous studies demonstrated that the proposed damage detection method worked well for simple models such as
shear structures2) and bending structures3). However, real buildings have various boundary conditions at their supports.
In this study, the SVM technique was applied for damage detection of structures with various boundary conditions. We
focused that how changes in boundary conditions of a structure influence the damage detection. Thus, we propose a
method to detect the damage location in structural part of structures with various boundary conditions and consider the
influences of boundary condition determined from prior information to diagnosis using SVM.
S = ((x1 , y1 ),L , (x N , y N ))
(1)
Each vector x belongs to either of two classes and thus is given a label y {1,1} . Then, the next step is to define a
boundary that divides two classes. The pair of (w, b) defines a hyperplane as
i
( w T x) + b = 0
(2)
This hyperplane is called separating hyperplane. It is noted that Eq (2) is not sufficient to define this separating
hyperplane uniquely. Many hyperplane are possible under the condition given by Eq (2). An example hyperplane is
shown in Fig 1. Among them, the optimum hyperplane is obtained as follows.
The optimal separating hyperplane (OSH) is defined by the hyperplane that divides S leaving all the points of the same
class on the same side while maximizing the margin which is the distance of the closest point of S (see in Fig 2). This
closest vector x is called the support vector.
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.
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0
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Hence, the OSH (w, b) can be determined by solving an optimization problem defined by
minimize
subject to
1 T
(w w ),
2
T
yi ((w xi ) + b) 1,
d (w ) =
(3)
i = 1,2,L, N
The resulting SVM is called Hard Margin SVM because no error is allowed. However, such SVMs can be used only for
a limited number of problems. In order to relax the situation, we allow a small number of misclassified feature vectors.
The previous optimization problem in Eq (3) is generalized by introducing N nonnegative variables = ( , , L , )
such that
1
1
(w w ) + C ,
2
y ((w x ) + b) 1 , i = 1,2, L , N
minimize d (w ) =
subject to
(4)
The SVM defined by Eq (4) is called Soft Margin SVM. The purpose of the term C , when the sum is for
i = 1,2, L, N is to keep under control the number of misclassified feature vectors. The parameter C is a regularization
parameter. The OSH tends to maximize the minimum distance 1 w for small C, and minimize the number of
misclassified vectors for large C.
So far, we described the case of LSVM. To allow flexible recognition, we introduce nonlinear transformation to a set of
original feature vectors x into a high-dimensional space by a mapping F : x a z as explained in Fig 2 so that
linear separation would become possible in the high-dimensional space there. However the direct computation of inner
products in a high-dimensional space is prohibitively time-consuming. Therefore, we are interested in cases where these
expensive calculations can be significantly reduced by using a kernel function which satisfies the Mercers theorem
such that
i
(5)
exp( x x )
i
(6)
(Gaussian kernel)
Many kernel functions satisfying the condition given by Eq (5) have been proposed. For our problems, the accuracy of
the damage diagnosis using the Gaussian kernel was found satisfactory.
Input space
Original space
We proposed the method to detect the damage of structure under various conditions. In this proposed method, the
natural frequency changes induced from damage of structure are used as feature vectors and detect the location of
damage using classification technique of SVM.
In this method, first, the boundary condition for the target structure is determined from prior information. Then, the
model of the structure is developed with determined boundary condition. From this model, SVM is constructed using
the modal information. Feature vectors for construction of SVMs are generated based on the model of a structure. After
that, the modal information of the real structure is extracted using system Identification method. Finally, locations of
structural damage are detected by inputting the measured structural vibration data into the SVMs.
We verified the proposed method by simulations and experiments. Through simulations, the influence of the changes in
the boundary conditions to modal frequencies was studied using modal analysis. And we performed an experimental
study on damage detection of power distribution poles with overhead wires as structures under various boundary
conditions. The method to determine the boundary condition of the poles from prior information was verified based on
the measured data of vibration tests using system identification technique.
For the purpose of verifying the proposed method, we studied the influences of changes in boundary conditions to
modal frequencies using shear beam models and bending beam models. We use three kinds of boundary conditions at
each end of the beams such as clamped (C), free (F) and pined (P) according to the way of their supports.
The C-F model was assumed as the basic model for each model set. And we compared it with C-C model and C-P
model. In addition, for the bending model set, we include models with more complicated boundary conditions such as
models added a mass and a spring on the top.
3.2 Influence of the change in boundary conditions
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From FE analysis, the 1st to 5th modal frequencies of each model were computed. Assuming the modal frequencies of
C-F model as a basic, we generated the frequency change rate for each mode. The results for C-C model ad C-P model
are shown in Fig 4 and the results for mass additional model and spring additional model are shown in Fig 5.
In case of comparing C-C and C-P model to C-F model, the modal frequencies decrease and the changes are larger on
the lower mode for shear beam models and bending beam models.
For mass additional model, the modal frequencies increase and for spring additional model, they decrease and the
change rate is larger on the lower mode. From these results, it was shown that the influence of the change in boundary
conditions on the lower mode is larger.
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In this study, we performed the analytical and experimental verification using power distribution poles as an example of
simple structures under various boundary conditions. The boundary conditions of power distribution poles are
determined by many aspects such as overhead wires, branch line, switches and transformers. And for the poles with
overhead wires, the weight and number of wires, distance between poles and the sag of wire were considered.
From the design drawing, we develop the model represents a pole with overhead wires. The simulation model is shown
in Fig 6. The model is a 1-dimensional bending FE model divided into 20 elements. The section of the model is circular
cavity and the outside and inner diameters of the support point become smaller along its height. The wire model for
along the wire direction includes the effects of masses and springs and for wire the orthogonal direction only includes
the effects of springs.
K M
K M
K
(b) Wire orthogonal direction model
(2) Wire model
(1) Pole model
Figure 6: Simulation model of power distribution pole with overhead wires
We conducted a series of vibration tests for power distribution poles for verifying the model developed from the design
drawing. We hit a pole without overhead wire and a pole with overhead wire by the impact hammer. The hammering
and measurement of acceleration were conducted in 2 directions of wire direction and wire orthogonal direction. System
identification techniques were used for modal analysis using measured input and output data. Using ARX models and
ARMAX models, the transfer functions were obtained as shown in Fig 8. In this vibration tests, we could identify the
1st to 4th modal frequencies of the system. We compared the analytical results of model developed in Section 4.1 and
measured results as shown in Table 1. From these results, the developed analytical model was updated.
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Figure 7: Power distribution pole
Mode
1
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FE analysis
pole model with wire
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direction
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26.9759
34.3360
48.1206
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9.9053
24.7999
46.9818
The simulations representing damage scenarios using developed models for power distribution poles were performed.
The i-th vector of natural frequency change associated with the i-th element damaged pattern for a pole described in Fig
6 is given by
T
,
, L,
p = [ p , p ,L, p ] =
,
1i
2i
1i
2i
Ni
Ni
(i = 1,2, L, N )
(7)
where is the natural frequency of r-th mode for the model without damage and is the change of the r-th
natural frequency due to the i-th element damaged pattern. The stiffness of the damaged element is varied from 90% to
50% of the original stiffness. The 1st to 4th natural frequency change rates were used for feature vectors. Slight
modification is made for the vector defined by Eq (7) to remove harmless components. The feature vector is, therefore,
defined in Eq (8). This modification corresponds to removing components associated with the stiffness reduction for all
stories with the same reduction ratio.
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4.3.3 Allowable error margin in decision of boundary conditions for damage detection
To verify the effectiveness of proposed method, how the error in decision of boundary conditions influences the
accuracy of damage detection was studied. In the case associated with an error in the spring constants of a wire in the
training models and testing models, we compared the number of misclassified data for the error in wire direction and
wire orthogonal direction. It was shown that 10 % error is allowed in wire orthogonal direction, that is, it kept the
status of 100 % correctness classification if the error is controlled below that level. And in wire direction, the allowable
error is lower like 1%.
5. CONCLUSION
The objective of this research is to propose a damage detection system that can obtain the detailed damage information
by use of the minimum number of sensors and SVM. Modal frequencies of a structure are used for pattern recognition
in the proposed method to minimize the possibility of incorrect judgments. Modal frequencies can be determined using
only two vibration sensors typically. In this study, the SVM technique was applied for damage detection of structures
with various boundary conditions. The feature vectors for construction of SVMs are generated based on the model of a
structure. Then locations of structural damage are detected by inputting the measured structural vibration data into the
SVMs. From simulation, it was found that the influence of the change in boundary conditions on the lower modes is
larger. We performed an experimental study on damage detection of power distribution poles with overhead wires. We
proposed a method for determining the boundary conditions of the poles and verified this method based on measured
vibration data. We demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method in detecting damage in the poles through
simulation. In terms of allowable error in decision of boundary conditions, it was shown that plus-minus 10% is allowed
in wire orthogonal direction, and in wire direction the error margin is low.
6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Mr. T. Tsutsumi and Mr. Y. Kobayashi at Tokyo Electric Power Company provided the insightful suggestions. The
vibration tests of power distribution poles were conducted at the research facility of Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Deep appreciation is owed for their help to make the vibration tests possible. The authors also thank Mr. R. Kudo,
undergraduate student at Keio University, for kind help for the vibration tests.
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